A much smaller group of a dozen or fewer people then prepare the employment report. They lock the numbers into the BLS system and on the Wednesday before the report is published, the commissioner is ...

Employees express concern Trump's firing of the commissioner, which followed a weak jobs report, will lead to future ...

Trump fired the labor statistics chief and the markets shrugged. That’s concerning.

Hiring slowed sharply over the summer, federal government data showed. The jobs report came days after fresh gross domestic ...

Trump's firing of the BLS commissioner has raised fears that government employment data, used to make major economic policy decisions, will become politicized.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he will decide on a nominee to fill a coming vacancy on the Federal Reserve's ...

Trump’s attempt to bury unflattering information serves as a diversion from what could be a looming economic storm. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says that he believes the “economy ...

After President Donald Trump unceremoniously fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics following Friday’s ...

President Trump has said he will choose a new Commissioner for the Bureau of Labor Statistics within the next three to four ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he had removed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent from ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he would "shortly" announce his pick for an open seat on the Federal Reserve's ...

President Trump’s firing of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) commissioner is raising concerns about whether her replacement could manipulate job numbers to work in his favor. The traditionally ...